STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A 26-year-old man jumped to his death from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge yesterday morning, the second suicide in a month at the iconic span.

The man, whose identity police did not provide last night pending family notification, abandoned his 1999 Ford Crown Victoria on the Staten Island-bound side of the bridge’s upper level about 6:20 a.m. and jumped over the railing and into the water below, authorities said.

A harbor unit recovered the body in the Narrows waterway, several hundred feet north of the bridge, an NYPD spokesman said.

On Dec. 27, Eric Suarez, 44, of Brooklyn, took his life in a similar fashion — he abandoned his car in the afternoon on the lower level and jumped, according to police.

The bridge saw a spate of five suicides between November 2007 and October 2008 — two of which took place despite the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s installation of “emergency phones” that August connecting to a suicide-prevention hotline.

This past May, a 46-year-old suspected shoplifter from Mariners Harbor died after jumping off the Goethals Bridge as he tried to escape police pursuing him from New Jersey.